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The Senate Banking Committee approved the legislation fixed today to reverse the depression era restrictions and allow American financial services to companies operating in the world with much less restrictive than the laws in force.

The legislation that the Committee approved 16 to 2, removal of barriers between insurance companies, Wall Street brokers and commercial banks, allowing them to merge more easily in large financial conglomerates. In some ways, the financial accounts of mergers already validated on the labour market or envisaged by the liberal interpretation of existing laws and other forms, can be quite new financial products businesses. The bill now goes to the full Senate.

”There is a broad consensus on the need for the modernization of financial services, which means that the bill,’’said Senator Alfonse M. D’Amato of New York, the Republican chairman of the Senate, the Banking Committee. ”The Committee action today is a big step forward. But Are not We There Yet. We have a good momentum, and I am confident that we can continue the process.”

In May, this bill squeaked through the house with one voice. That action led almost two decades between Gerangel insurance, Wall Street and banking interests, had the bill related to a legislative stalemate. Since May, however, markets in Switzerland and abroad are unstable, trade groups, horns have even blocked fashioned legislative compromise and powerful Wall Street executives, like Sanford I. Weill, Director General of the Travelers Group and David H. Komansky, Chief Executive of Merrill Lynch & Company, an aggressive policy of high-level and a lobbying campaign.

”This bill is so important for this country, if we financial turmoil from Moscow to Brazil,’’said Senator Faircloth leeks, North Carolina Republican. ”This bill would be a sea anchor of stability of the financial system in this country, that we need so much in that time.”

Not all committee members were convinced. The Federal Reserve chairman, Alan Greenspan, visited eight Republican members of the committee this morning to stress the importance of this law - and once again his belief that the Federal Reserve should tonangebende the regulatory authority in emerging financial center. Nevertheless, Republicans from beiden”no”votes: Senator Phil Gramm of Texas and Senator Richard C. Shelby of Alabama.

The two grams of M. and M. Shelby offered a constant stream of changes at a later withdrawn, as part of a continuing attack not only on account of the Community Reinvestment Act, but on the reinvestment in the general law. The rules require banks, bank loans and other services to low-income areas. The Senate measure to extend such arrangements to several forms of the new mega-banks, and the two senators said they could not support every bill with these provisions.

The majority of the commission is an hour, with attacks on the town reinvestment requirements by the two senators. The largest came from Mr. grams, supporters of these rules extortionists”,” likening the mafia said”,” and rules wurden”ein how evil slavery in the pre-Civil War era. ” ‘

In response, Mr. Mr. D’Amato grams in its efforts for an attempted Killer”””Änderungsantrag, would any of this bill.”

Senate Democrats, in general, are strong supporters of the municipality of reinvestment and have indicated they are against the bill if it weakens existing rules.

An amendment leben””Banking to eliminate or reduce the costs of banking services to low-income customers was approved along party lines, Democrats promote the life of driver and eliminate Republicans are predominant.

An amendment proposed by Senator Christopher J. Dodd, a Democrat of Connecticut, the protection of privacy of customers if these new conglomerates begin to cross the market for banks, insurance and securities products was again defeated on party lists lines, with Democrats in favour of and against the Republicans.